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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2

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Name	BoltDB  Xexclude from comparison	Graphite  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Db2 formerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An embedded key-value store for Go.	Data logging and graphing tool for time series data The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper	Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database model	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database models			Document store RDF store in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows) Spatial DBMS with Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.55 Rank #231   Overall #34   Key-value stores	Score 5.35 Rank #77   Overall #4   Time Series DBMS	Score 159.19 Rank #7   Overall #5   Relational DBMS
Website	github.com/­boltdb/­bolt	github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web	www.ibm.com/­analytics/­db2
Technical documentation		graphite.readthedocs.io	www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSEPGG
Developer		Chris Davis	IBM
Initial release	2013	2006	1983 host version
Current release			12.1, October 2016
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT License	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial free version is available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Go	Python	C and C++
Server operating systems	BSD Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux Unix	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows z/OS
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	Numeric data only	yes
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods		HTTP API Sockets	ADO.NET JDBC JSON style queries MongoDB compatible ODBC XQuery
Supported programming languages	Go	JavaScript (Node.js) Python	C C# C++ Cobol Delphi Fortran Java Perl PHP Python Ruby Visual Basic
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	Sharding only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	none	yes with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	none
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes locking	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no
User concepts Access control	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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